Re: Swedish alphabet [was: Re: Spanish alphabet]

John Cowan wrote:

> > It would both lose any connection to literature,
> > and fragment English into Nyorkese, Chicaguan, Bastonian,
> You underestimate Wijk's system.  I think he goes a little too
> far in some places, but his concern is for regularity, not
> phoneticism, and there would be no significant fragmentation,
> save perhaps into U.S. and Commonwealth varieties, where there
> is already fragmentation.
I will have to read it, of course. But it would not be acceptable
for the U.S.A. to declare linguistic indepence. There is a perennial
(-iel??) debate between the fonetik and orthographic camps. I've
just recently switched sides.